Combination candlestick



Oct. 11 1927.

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Filed May 11, 1926 Y Fuz-'z3 FIG-E FHS-I `1 645,193 Oct. 11, 1927. A H. JONES Y COMBINATION CANDLESTICK Filed May 11, 1926 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIE- vIII-ll vll; r`llllllllllllllllll4 F'lls-IE 2'/ Patented Oct. 11, 1927.

UNlTED STATES PATENT 1,645,193 Fris.

AUGUSTUS H. JONES, F MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE A.. H. JONES COMPANY, GF MEHIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

COMBINATION CANDLESTICK.

Application filed May 11,

I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent in l Fig. 1 a. side view, partly in section, ot a combination Candlestick constructed in accordance with my invention, and showing it as used with an electric light.

Fig. 2 a similar view with the electriclight plug removed and replaced by a candlesocket.

Fig. 3 a side view of the plug and shadeholder removed.

Fig. 4 a side view of a vigil light detached.

Fig. a side view of the 'shade-holder detached.

Fig. 6 an enlarged sectional view. of the upper end of the Candlestick, showing the electrical connections between the plugsocket and lamp.

Fig. T a top view with the shade-holder and lamp removed.

Fig. 8 a plan view ot an adapter.

Fig. 9 a side View ot' the same.

Fig. 10 a broken view showing one side of the upper end of the plug.

Fig. 11 a similar view of the opposite side of the plug.

Fig. l2 a top view of the plug-socket.

Fig. 13 side View of a Candlestick detached. i

lThis invention relates to improvement in combination Candlesticks, that is, a candlestick which may form a support for an electric light or be used with an ordinary candle, and particularly to combination candlesticks especially designed for use in churches or mortuary parlors, the object being to provide a Candlestick in which an electric lightJ may be readily mounted and properly supported and coupled with the source of supply, or removed for the support of a candle, and the invention consists in the construction as hereinafter described and particularly recited in the claim.

In carrying out my invention, I employ standard 15 of any approved design, formed in its upper end with a deep vertical recess 16 in the bottom of which is located a plugsocket 17. This socket is of insulating material and is formedwith an annular recess 1926. Serial No. 108,232.

18 in its upper end, which recess is lined with a ring 19 of metal, and this ring is connected by wire 20 with one oi' the usual circuit-wires. Arranged in the center of the recess is a stud 21 formed with a stem. 22 extending downward through the socket and engaged with the other circuit-wire 23.

Arranged to engagewith the plug-socket is a long plug 24 having a reduced lower end 25, which is surrounded by a band 26 of metal, the external diameter of this band corresponding to the internal diameter of the ring 18, into which it closely tits. This band is connected by a wire 27 with the usual lamp-socket 28 mounted in the upper end of the plug, which is of a length to project slightly above the top of the standard. In the center of the bottom of the plug is mounted an inverted cup 29 of metal, adapted to set over and closely fit the stud 21, and this cup 29 is connected by wire 30 extending upward through the plug and into engagement with a contact 3l in the center of the socket 28. The upper end of the plug is externally threaded to mount an ornamental globe-holder 32, which is also supported upon the upper end of the standard. The socket 28 is like a standard socket and adapted to receive an ordinary bulb of any desired candle power.

Oftentimes, a low candle-power lamp is desired when the device is to be used as a so-called vigil light, and it so, an adapter may be turned into the socket 28, and in the center of this adapter is an adaptersocket 34 threaded to receive the threaded end 35 of a vigil lamp 36, which Hts in the globe-holder 32.

In case it is desired to use a regularcandle, the plug 24 will be removed and a candleholder 37 set into the upper end of the standard in position to support a candle, as indicated in broken linesin Fig. 2.

I wish to call particular attention to the fact that t-he standard has a deep vertical recess in its upper end for the reception ot the long plug member which lits into it, so as to be firmly supported in a vertical position and be capable of supporting a comparatively heavy globe-holder and globe, and also that the recess is deep enough to irmly support a candle.

I claim:

A plug-socket formed with a recess in its upper end, lined by a smooth annular ring,

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reduced and surrounded by a smooth band of metal oosely ttng he ring in the plugsocket, and provldecl 1n lts lowerend with an lnverted metal cup ada-pied to set over and closely t the stud .on the plug-socket, and a. lamp-socket at 'the uppefend of he plug, Said band and Cup electrically con- 10 nected with terminals in the lamp-socket.' In Atestimony whereof, I have signed this specification.

AUGUSTUS H. JONES. 

